Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
L'Archivio Neural è un archivio di pubblicazioni noi raccolte nel corso degli anni. Sfoglia la nostra collezione qui.
Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
The value of craft after software sounds rampant sometimes, expressing the freedom of escaping repetitive taps and clicks to accomplish some assumed tasks. Mixing media, electricity, electronics, mechanics and inert objects Graham Dunning has realised a structured track/performance/open script in his “Mechanical Techno: Ghost in the Machine Music.” More than a proof of concept a machine music declination.
Isn’t ASCII Art a perfect form of “graffiti” in 2010s? The 8-bit aesthetics is among the strongest visual references connecting the analogue recent past with the omni-digital present, so why not adopt it to finally have some public art embedded in the present? In Varberg, Sweden, 2016, the GOTO80 crew (feat: Karin Andersson) did it, choosing (not by accident) the Mo Soul Amiga-font.
YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.
The relationship between Andy Warhol and personal computers (becoming quite popular during his last years) has been only partially investigated beyond his Amiga works. In November 2015, Sotheby’s sold his “Apple (from Ads)” (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas) for 910.000 USD, and in catalogue’s notes Warhol tells about his meeting with Steve Jobs insisting to give him one and showing him how to draw (even if still in black and white): “we went into Sean [John Lennon’s son]’s bedroom–and there was a kid there setting up the Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot wanting to give me one, but that I’d never called him back or something, and then the kid looked up and said, ‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’ And he looked so young, like a college guy. And he told me that he would still send me one now. And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.”
Harsh Noise Wally, is a sophisticated mashup mixing strips of Wally, the lazy and cynic colleague of Dilbert with some epic noise music extreme attitudes. Well conceived and assembled.
Minority Report comes closer… Three huge screens at Birmingham New Street railway station are scanning passers-by and play advertisements accordingly. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-street-station-advertising-screens-9920400
GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.
Ten Thousand Cents
Thousands of individuals drawing a 1/10.000 of a 100 bucks dollar for its theoretical value: one cent via the Amazon Mechanical Turk
(tags: art media hacking visual)
Soundwagon Portable Record Player
The one used by Staalplaat Soundsystem.
(tags: music media sound)
La “Totemobile” dell’artista ed esperto di robotica statunitense / messicano Chico Macmurtrie, è un robot che si trasforma dinamicamente partendo dalla forma di una Citroen DS e assumendo la forma finale di un “totem” →
CD – Creative Sources
Due le incisioni in questo progetto di Robert von Heumen, ‘Fury (after Anger)’, divisa a sua volta in quattro distinte tracce e ‘They Would Get Angry Sometimes’, →
Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) PALAOA – Livestream
Hydrophones sound streaming from below the Antarctic Ocean.
(tags: music science sound)
“Tornai a casa, ma non riuscii a stare fermo. Scesi e iniziai a correre forte, sempre piu forte […] Sentivo che tutto quel sangue visto a terra , perso come un rubinetto aperto →
CD – Kvitnu
L’intrecciarsi dei concetti nel riflettere sugli elementi naturali (aria, acqua, terra, fuoco) più volte ha già ispirato forme d’arte contemporanea (basti pensare ad esempio all’arte povera degli anni sessanta a →
YouTube – DJ Ramsey Scratch Tape Decks
Scratching tapes.
(tags: hacking music sound media)
book – Kehrer Verlag – ISBN 9783939583400
Art Machines Machine Art photo set
La produzione fisica autonoma di una macchina è spesso stata percepita come “magica”. La percezione che →
CD – Low Impedance
Sotto il moniker di Pridon, Petros Voudouris organizza un’elettronica quieta e godibile, infarcita da molte influenze che spaziando dalla techno all’electro, dall’IDM al dub, annettono pure un pizzico di →
Gregory Chatonsky » My hard drive is experiencing some strange noises
composing with hard drive noises
(tags: sound art hacking)
Audiosurf: Ride Your Music
play and listen your mp3 collection
(tags: music software sound videogame visual)
animula
Otolab’s elegant sound and vision
(tags: art visual sound music)
Amalgus Cycle è un ecosistema composto da processi parassitari innescati da input oragnici, che attraverso il digitale si permiano ed interconnettono con l’inorganico e l’organico in un ciclo finito che alimenta se stesso. →
